Click the icon "HPC and Analysis Options" and configure it as listed below.

Options Tab

Make sure that the HPC License is "Pool" , the Default Process Priority is "Idle" and the MPI Vendor is "Platform Computing".

Configurations Tab

Click Add...

There are three linux servers available to simulate ANSYS jobs on, use the "DNS Name..." method to add them.

Name

Cores

Memory

Tasks

Max Cores Allowed

Max Memory Allowed

aegir.doe.carleton.ca

16 @ 2.9 GHz

256GB

8

16

90%

odin.doe.carleton.ca

12 @ 3.46GHz

256GB

6

12

90%

thor.doe.carleton.ca

16 @ 3.20GHz

256GB

8

16

90%

Please note the above table on how to populate the Cores and RAM limits. These servers are public servers for everyone to use, please limit yourself to the above parameters.

The above steps are sufficient if you are planning on only using one host to simulate ie just borr or thor. If you want your job to use multiple servers a couple more steps are necessary. Please note there are many factors to a simulation time. Using more cores and/or multiple hosts does not necessarily cause your simulation to complete faster. Adding more cores and hosts also adds overhead to your job, please try using one hosts first and than adding more to make sure it will improve your simulation.

If you would like to run on multiple hosts please follow the steps here.